hmm, I'm just thinking about splitting the tree into separate
(larger) parts, actually: move out certain subtrees to an overlay.
For example: KDE.
Many people/systems won't ever use it (ie. have no X at all).
Others are very interested in it.
If we had this whole subtree in an overlay, it would make the main
tree much, much smaller, so easier to maintain and save load from
the mirrors.
But this only works good, if its actually an *subtree*, and *not*
overriding any packages from the main tree. Otherwise we soon get
ugly conflicts and evrything goes to hell.
There are developers that are interested in this; however I don't think
it's a place that the majority of Gentoo is willing to go to (as those
developers have already noted ;) ).
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